New Paper on Conditionality in Regulation and Governance

Together with Fabio Bulfone and Erez Maggor I have just published a paper on conditionality in industrial policy. ...

July 2025 · Timur Ergen

New Paper on the evolution of European climate policies in Regulation and Governance

Together with Luuk Schmitz I have just published a paper on the evolution of European climate policies. ...

April 2025 · Timur Ergen

Call for Applications: Villa Vigoni-Gespraech on Europe and the Geoeconomic Challenge

Together with Donato Di Carlo, Anke Hassel, Kate McNamara, and Manuela Moschella I’m organizing the Villa Vigoni-Gespräch ‘Europe and the Geoeconomic Challenge’, 22 to 24 April 2025, Loveno di Menaggio, Italy. We’re inviting applications for up to three advanced students and early career researchers to participate. The deadline for applications is 10 January 2025. A detailed call for applications can be found here.

November 2024 · Timur Ergen

New Paper on Industrial Policy Conditionalities

Together with Fabio Bulfone and Erez Maggor I have just published a paper on the politics of conditionality in industrial policy. ...

October 2024 · Timur Ergen

Two papers in edited volume on pragmatism in the social sciences

A new edited volume on pragmatist social science features two of my papers. A first one with the title Eine pragmatistische Theorie technologischer Innovation explores how to think about technological innovation from a Deweyan perspective. The second, co-authored with Martin Seeliger, Kollektive Erwartungsbildung und die Entstehung von Kooperation demonstrates how recent thinking about imagined futures can be the basis of a pragmatist understanding of collective action. ...

April 2021 · Timur Ergen
Varieties of Economization in Competition Policy

Paper on Antitrust in Review of International Political Economy

The paper compares competition policy reform in the United States and Europe. It argues that ideological and professional legacies in European antitrust agencies blocked the inflow of new concentration-friendly economic ideas into the field.

June 2019 · Timur Ergen & Sebastian Kohl